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Download full textUNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2021
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched a new publication, "Integrated Approaches to Literacy and Skills Development: Examples of Best Practice in Adult Learning Programmes." This new compilation showcases 21 adult education programmes that demonstrate promising approaches to integrating literacy, life skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
Brown, Jane; Coughlin, Merle – 1993
The Attleboro (Massachusetts) Workplace Education Program, a partnership of four area companies and Bristol Community College, is intended to provide workers with education that will improve the quality of their lives and their work. Housed in a corporate office building in the Attleboro Industrial Park, the program offers classes in English as a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education
Silverman, Gene; And Others – 1995
The Long Island Workplace Literacy Partnership was established to provide workplace literacy programs for adult workers with inadequate reading, mathematics, communication, English language, and decision-making skills. Four corporations cooperated with the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of Nassau County in the project. The service…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Employer Employee Relationship
Gasden Adult and Community Education Program, Quincy, FL. – 1993
A cooperative effort was made by the Chamber of Commerce and the Adult and Community Education Program to encourage and facilitate work force literacy in small and medium-sized businesses, industries, and government agencies in Gadsden County, Florida. Businesses that could benefit were identified through a business/industry questionnaire. Six…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Industrial Education, Literacy Education
Zane, Lawrence F. H. – 1999
Bakery Europa and the Straub Clinic in Hawaii participated in Project BELIEVE, a 3-year (1995-98) workplace literacy project conducted in partnership with the University of Hawaii's College of Education. Instruction focused on the literacy, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills needed to succeed in the baking and health care…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bakery Industry, Basic Skills
Taylor, Maurice – 1995
Presented in case study format, this report looks at different types of workplace literacy programs across Canada. It describes in some detail 10 particular work environments and the unique characteristics that have enabled each to offer quality worker education programs. Each case study provides information in these categories: profile (an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical Coll., Orangeburg, SC. – 1995
The VISIONS project, a workplace literacy program held in two manufacturing plants and a regional medical center, was conducted during an 18-month period from July 1, 1993 to December 31, 1994. During the project, staff were hired and trained, task analyses and orientation sessions were held, and tests and curricula were developed. Employees were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Job Skills, Literacy Education
Bronx Community Coll., NY. – 1993
A workplace literacy demonstration project involving a hospital and a manufacturing company in New York City was conducted between May 1992 and June 1993. Two classes in the spring and fall were conducted. A total of 41 hospital personnel and 30 manufacturing company employees began the training, and 25 hospital employees and 27 manufacturing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Employer Employee Relationship, Hospitals
Darville, Richard – 1991
Ways that workplace literacy programs can be made to work and the circumstances or forces that promote or hinder them are discussed, based on experiences in Vancouver, British Columbia, where 26 percent of the population is minority and 20 percent of the 8,000 city employees speak English as a Second Language. The story documented in this report…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Foreign Countries
Frost, Sally Joy – 1996
The Adult Basic Education Program at Umgeni Water, a water authority in South Africa, is a workplace literacy program that seeks to impart skills within the workplace that can be used in community development, benefiting both the business and community involved. From a pilot project in 1989, the adult education program at Umgeni Water has grown…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Corporate Education
Nash, Andy; Uvin, Johan – 1993
A minicourse pilot project was designed by the Massachusetts Department of Education to meet the staff training and development needs of workplace educators in the National Workplace Literacy Program. During the course, various activities and group configurations were used to help teachers apply modeled approaches to their own teaching contexts,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
CertainTeed's Precision Strike training program was designed to close the gaps between the current status of its workplace and where that work force needed to be to compete successfully in global markets. Precision Strike included Skills and Knowledge in Lifelong Learning (SKILL) customized, computerized lessons in basic skills, one-on-one…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Guides
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Lindsey Hopkins Technical Education Center. – 1989
Project Learning T.I.P. (To Improve Productivity) was conducted at three hospitals by the Dade County Public Schools to increase the literacy skills of the approximately 4,000 lower-level hospital employees who were deemed by their supervisors to be limited English proficient or to lack basic skills. Because of recruiting efforts limited by lack…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Entry Workers
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplace Literacy Program. – 1992
The National Workplace Literacy Program forges dynamic partnerships among businesses, workers, and educators facilitating the transition from yesterday's work environment to tomorrow's. The program's success is indicated by high retention rates, organizational acceptance, and intense grants competition. Valid and reliable measures are needed that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs
Mrowicki, Linda; And Others – 1994
A project was conducted to improve the productivity and efficiency of 10 manufacturers by providing workplace literacy instruction to workers lacking basic skills required for their jobs, and to improve the capability of educational programs to meet the basic skill needs of the manufacturing industry by developing an evaluation manual for basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
